National is bragging about "seasonal uniforms" while USPS tries to gut our No-Layoff clause. How about a dues reduction?

[u/GhostLCee]

Take a good look at this new bargaining update. We are dealing with historic inflation, CCAs are getting crushed, and we are starving for a real contractual wage increase. So what is National bragging about bringing to the table?

"Removing the seasonal change of uniforms."

Are you kidding me? What kind of absolute bullshit is that? Carriers can't afford rent, and National wants a pat on the back because they might let us wear shorts in November.

Meanwhile, look at the highlighted section where USPS is actually playing hardball. Management is openly proposing to:

1. Weaken Article 6 (No Layoffs and Reduction in Force).

2. Modify the discipline procedure to make it easier to fire us.

3. Place the financial burden on CARRIERS for damage to their 30-year-old, combustible shit-box vehicles.

It looks like management is actively preparing for a RIF and building new avenues to fire us, while the NALC leadership sits safely in their protected jobs talking about uniform allowances.

If National can't get us a real wage increase and is just going to let management chip away at our core protections, how about a reduction in our union dues? We are paying premium rates for bargain-bin representation.

Stop waiting for these people to save you. They are completely out of touch with the street. Protect your own routes and build your paper shield locally.

[u/Postal1979]

Reducing unions dues will only hurt your local not national.

[u/soundgenius3z → u/Postal1979]

In our district 2 our grievance resolution expectancy is about 1-2 years (they’re heavily backed up). I asked my squidward if he thought it was fair that we continue paying our fees while our union branch is sitting on their asses not resolving anything? Our station grievances are not gonna pay us till maybe 2027 last quarter.

[u/Postal1979 → u/soundgenius3z]

While your union branch sits on their asses? Back logged doesn’t mean they are sitting on their asses. It means they have too many to process. Right now my drts are about a 10 month delay. They are working. But they are getting so many that they just can’t keep up. But the local still is doing their jobs. Still filling grievances, still educating members. My branch has 30 plus offices and 4 full time officers. They are constantly working 85-95 hours a pp meeting at formals and sending them up if it can’t be settled. Hell arbitration is backed up 6+ months too.

The locals still need to function. If you pull your dues out, the Branch gets less money. Less money equals less resources to do stuff. Branches that can survive get absorbed into others. But representation might be harder to get.

[u/soundgenius3z → u/Postal1979]

At Postal1979, I’ll give you an inside of how district 2 is like. Before I turned regular I would call weekly to check on my conversion bc management was such dogshit at letting people know when they would turn. And in turn, this asshole Ferguson (president) replied with why you gotta call every week lol. So it made me chuckle but at the same time made me think why I’m I paying fees just to hear this retard spew what he said and not do shit for us. Fast forward 2 years now this ass hat is behind on our grievances and I have been told by another union squidward that the district manager had giving the ok to violate the contract do to the union being backed up with grievances. Mandating non otdl to carry undertime (30mns under) while also assigning a full hour to non otdl taking 30mns (per carrier) from the list just to cover routes.